Biodiversity Manifesto

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The report emphasizes the important role of community-managed genebanks – like the one managed by Aissata Ongoiba at Badiari village in Mali – in conserving valuable diversity.

The world desperately needs a biodiversity wake-up call. Speaking at an international meeting in Chennai, India two weeks ago, one UN executive shared a staggering figure: annual losses due to the destruction of biodiversity worldwide amount to US$5 trillion! That’s simply alarming.

The Chennai conference – which explored links between biodiversity, food, and human security – resulted in nine key recommendations. Among them, recognition of the emerging importance of local gene, seed, and grain banks – like those supported through USC’s Seeds of Survival (SoS) program – to developing stronger local level crops and food security.

You can read the rest of the recommendations in a summary of the meeting, posted by SciDev.net.

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